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Improving the DBD management design

We had a Db2 load job run that used a load control dataset with 1,764 “INTO TABLE” statements run against a database that had one tablespace with 1,366 tables having 1,306 indexes. The DBD length = 2628728. When the job was run, the SYSDBDXA t...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

IIS 11.7.1 DataStage Server DB2 External Table Support

Due to: potential manual efforts involved with retesting PX jobs post JR61510 patch and, volume of Server jobs having TWT logic in user-defined SQL statements Stage with DB2 connector using "Write mode=User-define SQL", "Direct Insert...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Search by relationship attribute type should work

Greetings! Search by relationship attribute type should work - it's impossible to find items in related catalog based on their primary key or partial match in the middle of the name limitation is described in ic page (https://www.ibm.com/support/...
over 4 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Display correct document names in the SDU interface.

Nokia is using WDS for their HR Chatbot, and trying out long tail search optimisation through SDU. Anyhow, in the SDU UI's dropdown file list, the files uploaded from the CAESAR/SEA (chatbot asset) Admin Panel to Discovery always get "_" as the ex...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Add OK button when Apply mobile configuration

Add OK, Cancel buttons to dialog window when saving mobile Server configuration (Apply mobile configuration).
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Online Backup compatability improvements request.

DB2 LUW still has a numerous commands/statements which are not supported with the ONLINE backup; (and there is no progress through the years):http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r7/topic/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.ha.doc/doc/c0021554.htmlhttp://...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Viewing of corrupted pages by SELECTing of catalog.

DB2 doesn't allow viewing of corrupted pages by SELECTing of catalog (like V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION in Oracle). The current workaround is:1) Execution of offline db2dart 2) OR the online INSPECT.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Automatic bad pages' repair on Primary DB in HADR environment.

In HADR env. which is running the primary and the standby database(s), when a bad page will appear in the Primary database – DB2 will be able to identify and repair the bad page, while the recovery can be easily based on the good copy of the pag...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

RECOVER the database into the Alternate location.

We have a lot of cases when we need to RECOVER the database to the alternate location/paths. The RECOVER command doesn't support the relocation of the database.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

New ARCHIVE LAG TARGET parameter request.

DB2 doesn't have the parameter which will ensure that each archived log file contains no more than n seconds of changes (like Oracle's ARCHIVE_LAG_TARGET), for example, 1800 seconds. So, if DB2 will fill up the log file before the expiration of 18...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration